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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies. After many years of recipes and experiments, this is the the final result of tweaking what I I think is the perfect chocolate chip cookie.

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Soft and chewy with crispy edges and the perfect amount of rich chocolate morsels. I’ve never had better anywhere. I have tried dozens of recipes over the years and this one is the best. Both crispy and chewy, this one satisfies all lovers of this cookie classic.

14/04/2012 Update: When I first posted this recipe in the early days of this blog, I still baked chocolate chip cookies on a regular basis. These days my 14 year old daughter, Olivia has taken over the job for the most part.

My 12 year old son Noah can turn out a mean batch of cookies all on his own too. Actually I’ll confess that he actually made the batch in this updated photo. I even used it in my first cookbook!

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Both kids are turning into very adept bakers and can both turn out perfect chocolate chip cookies from this outstanding recipe.

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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies – after many years of recipes and experiments, this is the the final result of tweaking what I I think is the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Soft and chewy with crispy edges and the perfect amount of rich chocolate morsels. I’ve never had better anywhere.

Servings: 12- 18

Author: Barry C. Parsons

Ingredients

1 1/3cupsall purpose flour

1/2tspsalt

1/2tspbaking soda

1/2cuplight brown sugar

1/2cupwhite sugar

1/2cupbutter

1egg

1tspvanilla extract or butterscotch flavoringor both! Hint, hint.

1cupsemisweet or dark chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly spray one cookie sheet with spray oil or line with parchment paper.

In a medium sized bowl whisk together flour, salt, and baking soda.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and combine thoroughly.

Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture. Mix only enough to incorporate flour. Do not over mix. Fold in the chocolate chips.

Form cookies by dropping a rounded teaspoon of dough on the prepared cookie sheet two inches apart.

Bake until light brown around the edges, about 12-15 minutes, depending on cookie size.

Over baking is the biggest problem with most chocolate chip cookies.

Your oven temperature and the type of cookie sheet you use will vary the baking times considerably. When they are golden brown around the edges is the time to remove them from the oven. Thinking they are a little underdone is probably a good thing. Experiment by baking only a couple of cookies at a time to see what the perfect baking time is for your oven

Cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet before removing to a wire rack to cool thoroughly.

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I made these today and added some pecan peices to the recipe with the chocolate chips..and they are devine….thanks so much for the great recipes and keep them comming..im trying your pineapple upside down cake next..yummy

Barry, I’ve tried several of your recipes and everything turns out great. These chocolate chip cookies are now cooling on my counter. I used a baking stone at 350 and baked for 12 minutes exactly. PERFECT!

Been searching for a good chocolate chip cookie recipe for a long time, one that didn’t spread all over the pan. Really good! I made some of them really small, good for kids. Those took about 8 minutes to bake. Dough about the size of a large marble for those.

Well, my first attempt at making these was disappointing. I’m thinking I must have overcooked them as these cookies came out hard – like store bought cookies. May give them another try though just to be sure. Other than the too crispy results, they are tasty with a glass of milk.

I made a double batch of the chocolate chip cookies tonight.. Excellent. Then I made a single batch mixing half and half regular chocolate chips and peanut butter chips and a little cocoa powder to tell them apart. I liked the mixed cookie better. 🙂 Not too over powering on the chocolate chip or peanut butter chip.

Thanks, I do love those apple muffins too. Depends on the size you make the cookies. I like to make them large, cafe style, for about 15 or so, but you can make them smaller for 18-24.Hope this helped, Barry.

I love baking, and I am fairly good at it for a 15 yearold. But do you know why my chocolate chipp cookies always come out rather raised? I would like them the be a bit flatter, and spread out more. More so like the cookies in the picture

Sounds like you over measured the flour. That has never happened in the hundreds of times we’ve made this recipe. Even my kids make them perfectly. In fact the pic in the recipe is from a batch made by my son.

Hi Barry, did you make larger cookies than a rounded tsp of dough? Your picture looks like they are larger. Do they bake up with a slight rise? I’ve been having problems with flat cookies, even when chilling the dough 🙁

hi there, I’ve tried these twice now and the flavour is great but my cookies are baking puffy- they won’t flatten and become chewy. I am not overbaking them so I’m not sure what is going on! Following the recipe exactly..

These cookies are deadly! I did not overbake, took them out with a tinge of color, totally let the cool for the required 10 minutes, and boy! Were they ever good. Crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. I made the second batch with Reeses pieces and they were also just as good. I did not have butterscotch flavouring, so I used vanilla and coconut flavouring, it was delicious.

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